Public Talks

Campbelltown Arts Centre has brought together 5 creative innovators from the analogue and early digital eras to mentor, collaborate and exchange ideas with 5 ‘new generation’ artists from various disciplines ...

Indigenous Australians use 'songlines' to navigate the land, with lyrics describing landmarks and waterholes. Honey bees perform a 'waggledance' to share the location of nectar, water and new habitats. And you? You're just addicted to Google Maps.

Mark Hosler is a founding member of the American audio visual collage group Negativland. Since 1980 Negativland have been creating records, video, visual art works, radio, and live performance, using appropriated sound, image and text.

We have selected artists from the ISEA2013 and Vivid exhibition programs to come together on a range of key thematic topics to discuss the role artists play in creatively investigating the possibilities and pushing the limits of new (and old) technologies.

This artists' talk, part of The Portals project and chaired by Dr Kathy Cleland, Co-Chair of ISEA2013, will explore the cultural possibilities that could emerge as high speed networks are rolled out across Australia, and help us find ways to insert culture and diversity into the heart of the new infrastructure.